Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Deborah Whitmarsh
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Name Deborah Whitmarsh Birth 1665 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
[1, 2] Gender Female 
Siblings3 siblings Person ID I1039 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 24 Feb 2020
Father John Whitmarsh, b. 7 Mar 1624, Shepton Mallett, Somerset, England d. Between 1695 and 1709, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 70 years) Mother Sarah Harding Marriage Bef 1656 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts [3, 4, 5, 6] Family ID F4593 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Nicholas Shaw, b. 23 Mar 1662, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1717, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 55 years) Marriage 1686 [2] Children + 1. Nicholas Shaw, b. 7 May 1689, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 10 Oct 1756, Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)Family ID F580 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Feb 2020
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Notes - George Walter Chamberlain's History of Weymouth, Massachusetts (Weymouth, MA: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), cited here for Deborah Whitmarsh's birth date, gives her different parents. On page 615, volume 4, in the entry for her husband Nicholas Shaw, she is shown as the daughter of Nicholas and Hannah [Reed, though he doesn't give her maiden name] Whitmarsh, with a birth date of 3 Aug 1759. But on page 759 of the same volume, the entry for Nicholas's brother John lists, as one of his daughters, "Deborah, b. 1665; m. Nicholas Shaw."
Other sources go back and forth on this question as well; several of them are discussed in this well-considered note by J. Richardson on werelate.org. Ultimately Richardson makes a convincing onomastic argument that her parents were John Whitmarsh and Sarah Harding, which is what we show here.
According to G. H. Hayward's Shaws of New Brunswick and Maine with roots in Massachusetts and England, 1518-2004, she outlived her husband, but her death date is unknown.
- George Walter Chamberlain's History of Weymouth, Massachusetts (Weymouth, MA: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), cited here for Deborah Whitmarsh's birth date, gives her different parents. On page 615, volume 4, in the entry for her husband Nicholas Shaw, she is shown as the daughter of Nicholas and Hannah [Reed, though he doesn't give her maiden name] Whitmarsh, with a birth date of 3 Aug 1759. But on page 759 of the same volume, the entry for Nicholas's brother John lists, as one of his daughters, "Deborah, b. 1665; m. Nicholas Shaw."
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Sources - [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923.
- [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923., says "near 1654".
- [S559] Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, Mass. by Newton Whitmarsh Bates. 1916., says "1654".
- [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930., says "1654".
- [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923.